> > Actually, yes, I tried both. Kudzu found the card and configured it to > use the orinoco_pci driver. That driver starts loading but then says > the card's firmware isn't present and bombs out. (The firmware is > present. I put the card in a Windows box and it works fine.) >
The firmware needs to be on the hard drive, in a path the firmware loader can find. On Gentoo, I see there is - prism54-firmware, but it's for the Intersil Prism GT and Duette chipsets. > > So, ndiswrapper seems like a reasonable way to go, and if I have to > build a kernel then I'd rather use Gentoo and get the advantages of > portage over time. (Or that's my thought in the cold cruel light of > morning...) ;-) > Well as you have a Gentoo system, you might pull down the prism54-firmware package, see where it's installed to and cp it over to the other system and give it a shot. Bob - -- [email protected] mailing list
